Skirt-protecting garment



(No Model.)

- E. E. WOOD.

SKIRT PROTEGTING'GARMBNT.

No. 413,426. Patented Oct. 22, 1889.

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' W'OOD, of Topeka, in the county of Shawnee- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LIZABETH EMILY WOOD, or TOPEKA, KANSAS.

SKI RT'-PROTECTlNG GARM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,426, dated October 22, 1889.

Application filed February 19, 1889. Serial No. 300,484. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH EMILY and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improyements in Water-Proof Garments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which Figure l is a perspective. view showing my improved water-proof garment applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the garment, showing' the supporting-straps; and Fig. 3 is a plan view with the upper portion of the garment removed. I I v Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

The object of my invention is to provide an attachment for water-proof cloaksfor protecting the limbs and keeping the skirts clean and free from mud and moisture.

The invention consists in the particular construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

The water-proof cloak A, which is of the usual form, is preferably provided with elas-.

tie bands for drawing the sleeves tightly around the wrists, and to the skirt of the cloak, near the bottom thereof, is secured a flexible disk B of rubber cloth or other suitable material, the said disk being provided.

disk B is provided with straps c, which extend underneath the instep and serve to hold the disk down, and to the said disk, at the center on a waistband g, adapted to buckle around the waist. The straps d d serve to support the disk and prev cut it from sagging.

For convenience in putting on and taking oif the garment, the disk Bis provided with a slit h at the front of the garment, space being allowed between the apertures in disk to enable the wearer to step into a carriage orgo up and down stairs without inconvenience.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secu reby Letters Patent 1. The combination, with the water-proof garment A, of the disk B, secured to the garment near the bottom thereof, and provided with the openings (1, the loops e, secured to the disk, the cross-straps d d, secured to the center of the disk and passing through the said loops, and provided with the rings f at their free ends, and the waistband g, passing through the said rings, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the water-proof garment A, provided with the slitted disk B, having openings a, with puckering-strings b, the loops e, secured to the disk, and the cross-straps d d, secured to the center of the disk and passing through the said loops, and provided with the rings fat their free ends to receive a waistband, as set forth.

ELIZABETH EMILY \VOOD. \Vitnesses:

W. J. STARR, J. A. PREsoo'rr. 

